Country size comparison
compared to
Ireland is about 17 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 5.76% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (52.2 million fewer people live in Ireland).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Ireland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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